Addressing



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M. SIERSDORPER. ADDRESSING MACHINE.

No. 423,185. Patented Mar. 11, 1890.

Ill/Ill UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL SIERSDORFER,'OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

ADDRESSING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,185, dated March11, 1890.

Application filed May 3, 1889. Serial No. 309,479. (No model.)-

I To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, ll/IICHAELSIERSDORFER,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, county of Jeiferson, State of Kentucky, have invented a new and usefulAddressing-Machine, of which the following is a specification.

My device is intended to greatly facilitate the addressing ofpostal-cards, envelopes, circulars, and the like, which are oftenrequired to be dispatched in great numbers and with special haste.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification,Figure l is a perspective view of an addressing-machine embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is asection on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. I

1 represents awriting-desk having customary inclined and hinged top' 2.Connected with the rear of said desk is an inclosed space or magazine 3,having a spring 4, which supports a tray 5, upon which are placed thepostal-cards 6.

7 are bearings for the journals of a delivery roller or cylinder 8,whose periphery is such as to have a tractive action on the (for thetime being) uppermost card. This tractive action may be obtained bypoints or asperities on said periphery, or by forming said roller of orcovering it with india-rubher. This roller is rotatable by means ofhandles 9.

Retaining-fingers 10, of spring-steel, are so secured to a transversebar 11 as to be capable of being brought near together for postalcards,or of being placed farther apart for Wider articles, such as envelopes.Rear eX- tensions 12 enable the fingers 9 to be held to any adjustmentand hold them firmly to cylinder.

In rear of the magazine 3 is a box, collector, or receptacle 13 toreceive and hold the addressed cards. The desk may be provided with aholder 14 for an ink-bottle, and with a pen-rack 15.

16 is a shutter, which being opened permits insertion of cards, andwhich being closed holds them in place.

The operation is as follows: The tray 5 being depressed with one hand, apile or stack of postal-cards is with the other hand inserted betweensaid tray and the deliveryroller 8. The operator then having charged hispen with ink, and holding said pen in one hand, with the other hand uponone of the handles 9, gives the roller a partial rotation in directionof the screw, so as to bring the topmost card onto the upper front partof the roller, to which the elastic fingers 10 serve to retain it inconvenient presentation to be addressed, which, having beenaccomplished, a like further partial rotation of said roller drops theaddressed card in the box 13, and by the same movement elevates theimmediatelysubjacent card into the proper position upon the roller, andso on in orderly sequence until the work is done.

The operation is materially facilitated by the desk 1 in the representedposition relatively to the cylinder 8.

I do not claim a spring supported tray, nor a traction-cylinder, norelastic retaining-fingers, separately considered, such being old andwell known.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as newtherein and desire to secure by LettersPateht- 1. In anaddressing-machine, the combination of spring-supported tray 5,traction-cylinder 8, and the elastic retaining-fingers 10.

2. In an addressing-machine, the combination, with desk 1, of thespring-supported tray 5, the retaining-fingers 10, and the rotatingcylinder 8, whose top is flush with said desk, for the purposes setforth.

3. In an addressing-machine, the combination, with the spring-supportedtray 5 and the traction-cylinder 8, of the elastic retaining-fingers 10and the transverse bar 11, to which said fingers are attached and onwhich they are adjustable.

4. In an addressing-machine, the combination of the desk 1, the magazine3 in rear thereof, the contained spring-supported tray 5, the deliveryand bearing cylinder 8, the elastic retaining-fingers 10, and thecollector or receiving-box 13.

MICHAEL SIERSDORFER.

Witn esses:

EMILE DUPAQUIER, FRANK SIERSDORFER.

